Jan Talmadge Davids works in clay and mixed media to construct narratives using time, space, and nostalgia articulated from her lived experience. She invites the viewer to engage in the ideas of fragility, vulnerability, transparency, and how light can change the appearance of meaning to evoke thoughtful conversation that may otherwise remain cloistered. She was born in Tucson, Arizona, spending her youth in the South-Eastern part of the state. She attended the University of Arizona, California State University at Long Beach, and then came from Los Angeles to pursue her MFA at the Herberger School of Art and Design where she found the opportunity to reconcile her past with her present that is embedded in the desert landscape. Her work has been shown at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, The Carolyn Campanga Klefeeld Contemporary Art Museum in Long Beach, CA, Tempe Center for the Arts, eye lounge, in Phoenix, and The Tucson Museum of Art.